Warner has put a bunch of shows out on TV, but mostly (entirely?) current hits. A single-season show from ten years ago is a riskier proposition.

Supposedly, Columbia House was putting it out on VHS, but I don't know how well that did, if Warner was using that to gauge demand. Brisco is the sort of thing that's so far off the radar that it would probably take Bruce getting another TV series (one which does well) for Warner to consider dusting it off.

It's also the sort of thing that Anchor Bay could just kick all sorts of butt with, but unfortunately Warner doesn't license their properties out much.

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Trust me, I'm working on Warner Bros to release it. Almost every time I talk to them I try and work it into the conversation. I would hope that it would sell something like B5. Not a mega hit, but nothing to ignore. With the show only lasting 1 year there's no fear from the fans that it may be dropped, and Bruce fans that haven't seen the show could make a blind purchase and know that they have the entire thing.

BTW - Warner hasn't really released tons of TV product. Compared to their catalog, they are really sitting on some gems.

Bruce fans that haven't seen the show could make a blind purchase and know that they have the entire thing.

Ditto for JOAT (Jack of All Trades) these would fly off the shelf if someone would get their act together and get it done..

Considering the relationshop between Anchor Bay, Sam Rami (who did both Brisco and JOAT) and Bruce.. this would SEEM to be a flat NO BRAINER for them do to (in particular JOAT since Sam's Rennisance Pictures did that.. not WB).

Sam wasn't involved with Brisco; it was created by Jeffery Boam (Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade) and Carlton Cuse (Nash Bridges), and had a handful of other producers (who, tellingly, tended to cast the Brisco crew a lot in their later shows).

Sam did work with one of Brisco's main producers, John McNamara, later on Spy Game, another short-run series which I'd dearly love to see on DVD.

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I'd definitely love to see this on DVD, I watched quite a few of the episodes on TV and enjoyed them thoroughly. Obviously, Bruce Campbell fans are a selling force...how many times have the Evil Dead films been released (and re-released, and re-released, and re-released...), again?

Sam wasn't involved with Brisco; it was created by Jeffery Boam (Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade) and Carlton Cuse (Nash Bridges), and had a handful of other producers (who, tellingly, tended to cast the Brisco crew a lot in their later shows).

Ooops... brain slip... Sam and Bruce seem so joined at the hip at times it's hard to seperate them (grin).

(I just had a mental scene of Lord Bowler interacting with Jack Stiles.... AIEEEEEEEEE!)

I'd like to see some of the early Renaissance Pictures movies released. Columbia seems to just be sitting on Lunatics: A Love Story for instance. And the Darkman movies could all stand better releases.

And Crimewave. Surely, there has got to be a market for a movie that is both early Sam Raimi and early Coen Brothers. Why is MGM (I think) sitting on this?

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Cleopatra 2525 Season 1 is available in R2 UK. There is at least one US place renting it.

There's a better set available in R4, the R2 set crams the entire 1st season into 2 discs (and disc 2 appears to be OOP).

The R4 set cover all the 1st season, and all but 6 eps of season 2 (the last 6 1hr eps). I've contacted the publishers and the tenative plans are for another 3 disc set in '04 to Finish the entire run.